SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 12

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Episode 12

“You’re bleeding.”

“…Huh, what. What?”

“Your finger is bleeding.”

I, who had been frozen in place, slowly shifted my gaze.

Just as Kwon Tae-min said, droplets of blood were forming over the bite marks on my index finger. But since I had already anticipated this after tasting the metallic flavor earlier, I wasn’t particularly surprised.

For some reason, Kwon Tae-min seemed displeased with my reaction. After staring intently at my finger with penetrating eyes, he faced me with a subtly hardened expression.

Feeling inexplicably nervous, I sharply raised the corners of my eyes. It was ridiculous, but even in this situation, my wounded pride stirred up chaos inside me.

Really, who told him to approach without warning and bring me my favorite drink that I never told him about?

“You, you bastard! You’re the one who did wrong!”

Of course, I knew I had done something quite terrible. If I disliked and was uncomfortable receiving the drink, I should have firmly refused, but I went as far as splashing it on his face. Even though it wasn’t entirely my own will…

“You…!”

“…”

“You, you…”

But my words, which couldn’t form any proper sentence, faded and merely circled in the air.

The entity beyond the system window forces me to exaggerate what I only thought and voice it out loud, to express it through violent actions. Just thinking that I dislike that person makes words like ‘I hate you!’ come out, and just thinking I don’t want to see that annoying face makes my fist shoot out to strike the other person.

So it might have been different if I were a being without even the slightest trace of violence, literally like an angel. But there couldn’t be such an absolutely good being among people born and raised in this world, and I was more rather than less violent than others, so I had no choice but to be swayed by the system window.

However, there were moments when something would rise up enough to soften even such fierce temperament.

Namely fear, an emotion that easily erases other thoughts and impulses.

It was several times worse than when we met in the deserted School Backyard last time. From Kwon Tae-min’s dry expression as he faced me up close, I could even sense killing intent. Looking at him, I could only move my mouth before finally averting my eyes.

My plummeting pride was another problem. Even a hedgehog bristling with spines would change its attitude and lower its weapons if it judged that resistance was meaningless.

Sharp pain rushed from my eyes, which had become so stiff I couldn’t even notice. I was sniffling and gritting my teeth when an unfamiliar touch suddenly entered my blurring vision.

Startled, I stepped backward. Because of this, I bumped into the wall and window frame right behind me, but I had no time to worry about such things. As if he was also surprised, Kwon Tae-min’s hand stopped hesitantly in mid-air as it approached me.

Kwon Tae-min, who had been repeatedly grasping and releasing empty air meaninglessly, slowly opened his mouth.

“…Sorry.”

What? Sorry, for what?

“I’m sorry.”

The voice reaching my ears again seemed somehow subdued.

I lifted my head reluctantly. As if he had been watching me the whole time, Kwon Tae-min’s gray eyes immediately met mine, excessively persistent.

Meeting that gaze, I trembled again. Then Kwon Tae-min, who also flinched and trembled following me, silently moved his mouth before gently lowering his eyes.

“Is it less scary this way?”

“…Huh, huh?”

“Then I’ll stay like this.”

No, so what exactly?

Confused and bewildered, the words swirling chaotically in my head wouldn’t come out of my mouth. At my reaction, I could see Kwon Tae-min trying to shrink his body slightly.

His broad, flat shoulders crumpled pitifully. Even so, he couldn’t erase his characteristic predator-like intimidating presence, but I couldn’t help but notice that pitiful effort itself. The fear that had been tearing at me gradually faded.

However, separately, my questions hadn’t disappeared.

‘What, what is this? What is he doing?’

A different kind of fear from my primitive instinct toward Kwon Tae-min slowly arose. The mystery of the incomprehensible scene before my eyes arbitrarily tore at my reason.

“Can I take a look at your hand for a moment?”

He’s supposed to be an obsessive guy.

“…Of course, if you don’t want to, I can’t help it.”

You were the crazy bastard among crazy bastards who even broke windows on your own.

And most of all.

“No… aren’t you disgusted?”

I looked uneasily at that liquid still glistening sweetly with no sign of drying. The moisture beading on his sharp jaw and dripping down kept stimulating my unnecessary conscience.

I had no idea where things went wrong or how to untangle and re-thread these twisted buttons.

Unable to bear it any longer, dissatisfied irritation began to rise again. Since Kwon Tae-min had also softened his momentum, my body, no longer gripped by fear, showed signs of acting up on its own again.

I slowly wiggled my fingertips, now feeling a faint pain. Trying to prevent my trembling lips from constantly parting, mangled sighs leaked through the gaps between my teeth.

Then my tongue, finally breaking free from control, moved on its own.

“Bastards…”

Actually, that was closer to profanity I wanted to spit out myself, regardless of any forceful control.

Anyway, as expected, simply clenching my mouth with force wasn’t enough to swallow the nonsense that had boiled up to the surface. As I was about to put my aching finger back into my mouth again.

“Hand.”

With a warning, gnawing voice, a hand that suddenly approached grasped mine. Then it firmly restrained me from biting my finger with my teeth.

I twisted not only my wrist but also my arm, and soon my whole body, trying to escape from that grip. But true to his reputation as a crazy obsessive guy who had easily smashed a window frame, Kwon Tae-min didn’t budge.

“You, you crazy bastard… You said you wouldn’t touch me if I said I didn’t like it! Why are you being cowardly, just babbling nice words!”

Though I had no such intention, my expression must have looked like someone who had been betrayed by someone they trusted.

Kwon Tae-min slowly rolled his eyes and fell into serious contemplation, just like when he heard the question about being a stalker last time. Then he soon came up with a shameless retort.

“You didn’t say you didn’t like it.”

What is this bastard?

“I don’t like it. I don’t like it. I said I don’t like it! Is that enough!”

“…Sorry. You don’t like it.”

However, contrary to his quietly offered apology, the force gripping my hand became even stronger. I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I was mistaken, but seeing Kwon Tae-min avoiding eye contact with me and turning away, I became certain. Having reached the point where I couldn’t exercise even a shred of patience anymore, I raised my voice sharply.

“What are you, my guardian or something? Making such a fuss over a little blood on my hand, what bullshit.”

“…”

“Really, when have I ever been beaten by someone, when have I ever broken anything! Even if your whole body is covered in black and blue bruises, if you grit your teeth, you can walk and run – that’s the human body, so why are you, who has nothing to do with me, acting like this…”

Thump, both my shoulders were grabbed somewhat roughly. It wasn’t painful enough to hurt, but because it was such sudden contact, I froze completely. Naturally, my hand, freed from Kwon Tae-min, wandered aimlessly in the air.

“Say that again.”

My startled heart raced painfully. I couldn’t make any sound and just moved my lips blankly.

“Say it again, Yu Baek-hwa.”

“…”

“How do you know that even if your whole body is full of bruises, you can walk and run if you want to.”

An example that was too specific but far from commonly used, and confidence as if it were natural.

‘How do I know?’

That was a question too obvious for me to need to ponder.

‘Because I’ve experienced it.’

Because it’s data from my experience, the result.

It was a question I could answer without needing to think. But I didn’t want to ramble on about my personal history to Kwon Tae-min, who was practically my enemy, who surely disliked me even if he was just better than the other two.

Though I thought I had overcome it, the painful past still remained painful. Knowing that revealing it would become my weakness in some way, why would I advertise such private matters for anyone’s benefit?

As I glared at Kwon Tae-min with trembling, tightly shut lips, suddenly my vision became distant and my body, losing its sense of balance, swayed greatly.

A headache that came without warning was mercilessly tearing through my head. Because of this, I lost my center and nearly fell, but I didn’t even notice that Kwon Tae-min barely managed to support me, just rolling my eyes and gasping for breath.

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